VBT Assessor Linda Stevenson appointed to serve as MAA President

Linda Stevenson, Assessment Coordinator for Van Buren Township, recently was sworn in as the 2014 President for the Michigan Assessors Association (MAA).
“I am honored to serve as president for this professional organization and to engage with my esteemed colleagues in this capacity,” Stevenson said.
Stevenson was appointed to the MAA Board of Directors in 2008.
She also served on the Wayne County Assessor Association of Officers as president in 1999 and the South East Chapter of the MAA as its president in 2005.
The MAA is a statewide, non-profit educational and resource organization that was established in 1959 to improve the standards of assessment practice, to provide a clearing house for the collection and distribution of useful information relative to assessment practice, and to promote justice and equity in the distribution of the tax burden.
Stevenson has worked for VBT for 24.5 years and always has had a hand in property tax assessing.
“It’s not something you want to become, a property tax assessor, but that’s what I’ve done,” Stevenson said.
He was fired hired as a confidential secretary to Supervisor David Jacokes, but three or four months later assessor Stephanie Soja retired and Stevenson and Susan Ireland took over the assessing.
Stevenson is married to David and they have two daughters, Melissa and Angela. They also have two “wonderful grandsons – they are my joy,” she said.